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New Wine in Old Bottles

New Wine in Old Bottles

I want to challenge something today and I'm going to challenge something that's very big.

Matthew Chapter 9, verses 16 and 17 reads thus. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill up, to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

What was Jesus talking about? We must consider the age and time in which Jesus lived. Jesus lived in that period of time in the nation of Judah, not the northern kingdom of Israel, but the southern kingdom of Judah. That nation was controlled by the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Herodians. These were religious parties, and the Herodians were a political party. It was the Pharisees that controlled that nation.

Jesus was born, and He came to destroy something that was old, and to establish something that was new. Now what did He come to destroy? He came to destroy the old Levitical, religious ordinances that were laid down in the Old Covenant. He did not come to overthrow moral law. He did not come to overthrow the law of statutes and judgments, because moral laws, statues and judgments, we must live by, because they were given to govern our personal life and also our national life.

Jesus came to challenge the old system of religious sacrifice, animal sacrifice, and in the animal sacrifice, that law of ordinances, only the law of ordinances, He said, I am come to bring truth and life and grace and glory. He said, I am not come to put new wine of the New Covenant into the old bottles of the Old Covenant. I'm going to make a brand new framework into which I operate. I'm not come to patch up the old garment of the sacrificial system that was given unto Moses. I am bringing a brand new sacrificial system. I'm going to give my body as a perfect sacrifice.